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Section 1.3 Conducting an Assessment to Determine Your
Starting Point
Successful IPE and CP programming is not possible without the support of key individuals
in your institution who can help you create an impactful and sustainable program. Assessing your institution’s environment will inform the next steps you need to take. An institution is more likely to successfully implement an initiative when it has objective information about the crucial gaps that need to be filled. Be aware of particular initiatives or the special interests of senior leadership at your own institution.
The Checklist, “Steps to Interprofessional Education Readiness,” will help you determine how ready your institution is to implement IPE. It is also important to note that the steps listed may not necessarily take place in the order in which they are listed. For instance, you may concur- rently be meeting with senior leadership and recruiting interested faculty members as working partners. It is also important to emphasize that this Checklist can be useful whether you are trying to implement a single IPE activity or a comprehensive IPE program.
The Checklist is organized into five overarching stages of program development, with key prompting questions within each stage. Following the Checklist is a description of each of the five stages with advice to follow if you answered “No” to any of the questions. The Checklist, adapted from the AHRQ’s “Organizational Readiness Assessment Checklist,”21 thoroughly describes the institutional process for implementing the TeamSTEPPS® program, which is a teamwork system developed jointly by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to improve institutional collaboration and commu- nication relating to patient safety. The intention of this Checklist adaptation is to make the TeamSTEPPS readiness assessment tool relevant to all types of IPE programming.
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ASCO IPECP Toolkit
June 2020